Landsat Satellite Images Used in Identification of Land Use and Land Cover in Mountain Area

Vorovencii, Iosif

doi:10.5593/sgem2013/bb2.v2/s10.010

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“…Although the potential of satellite-based data as a platform for creating important information for land use/land cover (LULC) has been widely recognized since the mid-seventies, the potential of satellite-based data as a platform for creating important information for LULC has yet to be fully realized (Alphan 2003;Erener et al 2012;Vorovencii et al 2013;Badreldin & Goossens 2014;Hütt et al 2016;Onim et al 2020). Over the past few decades, land use/land cover mapping and change detection techniques have been developed and deployed all over the world (Mucher et al 2000;Mengistu & Salami 2007;Sahebjalal & Dashtekian 2013;Agaton et al 2016;Mishra et al 2020;Abualtayef et al 2021).…”

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Assessing land use/land cover change detection of north-eastern watersheds of Kashmir valley using GIS and remote sensing techniques

Gull

Shah

Dar

2022

Water Practice and Technology

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Land use changes in the Kashmir Himalayas must be mapped and monitored for long-term development and efficient planning. This work uses geospatial technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System to track changes in Land cover trends in four main watersheds in the Kashmir Valley's north-eastern Himalayas from 2003 to 2013. Land cover maps were created using images from the Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper. The watershed's Land use/Land cover maps were created using supervised classification utilizing the Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC). Over the previous decade, the land use/land cover in the study watersheds has undergone a series of intricate changes as a result of deforestation, climate change, and agroforestry growth. A total of eleven major LULC classifications were discovered, indicating that forests are the most common land use in all four watersheds. Forest cover, river beds, water bodies, non-perennial snow, and glaciers have all decreased significantly, whereas Scrubland, horticulture, rock mass, built-up, barren land, and agriculture have all increased significantly, except for Sindh watershed, where Scrubland class has decreased by 5.97% from 2003 to 2013. The study's methodology and conclusions point to crucial policy implications for long-term LULC management in the Kashmir Himalayas' Madhumati, Arin, Sindh, and Lidder watersheds.

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